S-Clarke

Barnard? Are you still drunk from last night or something???? He may still be around, somewhere, but he'll never ever play for us again. That I can be sure of.

Yes. And has also been put up here - http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/10908185.Saints_won_t_be_panicked_into_making_transfer_market_moves/

The Astori link was laughed off by MP today, as was the link of Lambert to WHU. The main priority from him was to get our best players back fit and playing, as opposed to signing any new additions.

Lallana I'll give you, but the others should be fine to go again. Morgan has missed a few games in the last few weeks due to injury and suspension, so should be fine and rested. Lovren too. Lambert was only a sub today. There's no real need to make wholesale changes for this.

As the league cup was, it would be a complete and utter wasted opportunity. At the end of the day, we rested players for the league in the Sunderland cup game. We lost it, and then went on to lose lots of league games. So it didn't exactly help. I think whatever happens this season will be progress, but being in a relativity begin premiership position (and i wouldn't expect our position to change a great deal come to the end of the season) it gives us an opportunity to approach the cups with vigor - or it should do.

Ah cool, another take the **** out of your own fans ''bump''. I've missed these.

Would be good to have a cup run, in fact it's a good season to do so. I'd hope Osvaldo gets a start, and can see Clyne and Chambers continuing @ full back. This will not be your standard easy game, Burnley are an excellent side who will pose a real threat. So for that reason, I wouldn't have Jos anywhere near the side for starters.

He had a couple of good moments today, but unfortunately far too many frustrating and annoying passages of play - i.e giving the ball away, being brushed off the ball so often, losing out in a tackle....losing the ball whilst running with it. So basically, the same as usual. Exceptionally talented, agreed. But to me....after what is now 18+ months, I cannot see a future for him in the PL. He's still so off the pace of the game at times, it's unreal. His misplaced passes almost cocked us up in the first half, with Chelsea breakaways. I'd have to agree, that he can be a bit of a liability in our team in terms of the formation and tactics we deploy. You have to be very sound with the ball, otherwise the high press is blown out of the water and the opposition just break on you. Ramirez was the weak link in that sense.

Jay Rodriguez and Lallana both had nightmares today, and when you have a player like Lallana having that sort of game...we haven't got a hope in hell! They'll have better games, that's for sure. But I'd agree from what I've seen, Jay is not a central focal point striker - he's best deployed as part of a 3, or as a 2. He doesn't do a job on his own at all.

Great thread to start 2014. Impatience is too apparent in the modern day football fan, and so is the urge to change absolutely everything on the back of a snapshot of fixtures. Bloody fickle generation

Well beaten in the 2nd half, you have to give credit to Jose who won that game tactically without a shadow of a doubt. He exploited our high line excellently in the 2nd half, with the agility and pace of Oscar and Willian - it worked a treat for them, and we had absolutely no answer. To be honest, it was a fair result. We weren't at the races, and when your big players have off days, then against Chelsea we don't stand a smidgen of a chance. It was all just a case of keeping the score down in that 2nd half. At least that ***** of a run fixture wise is over, now let's start consistently picking up some points again - and get Wanyama back in the side!

Still got a lot to prove! A long way from being a ready made replacement! Looks decent though in the few times I've seen him, excellent movement.

No ****.

It would be a little silly to sell him right now. What we need to do first is have a ready made replacement, who we know can come in and do a similar job for us. At the moment, we have nothing. Jay is decent, but a totally different player in that sense - he needs supply, and relies a lot on pace and beating a player etc. Osvaldo still has a hell of a lot to prove.....and that's it. If we bring in someone like Lukaku, then maybe...but until we have someone else of Lamberts ilk ready to come in, that's the reason why we can't sell him. £8m, £10m, £10m, whatever....that money would be nothing to us if we have no one of his ilk ready to come in straight away.

He's always been decent I think, but nothing special. He's probably top half championship at best, which is probably where he'll be next year.

TBF, statistically, there were very few differences in the contributions of Gaston and Puncheon last season. You could argue, that if Gaston hadn't been in and out of the side in the 2nd half of the season - he may have had better stats. And Puncheon needed to leave for personal reasons, he didn't really want to as he was finally settled here football wise, but family life came first for him. The club reluctantly agreed. He's also had a bit of a nightmare season for Palace, his best performance came last week. Palace fans have actually been asking to get shot in the January window..

the traffic setup would need to be reshaped entirely. Getting in and out of Eastleigh on a daily basis is an utter slog, throw 32k+ people there, and you wouldn't be moving for hours based on the current roads etc.

It's a modern ground, the only time I remember having an issue with rain was during the Leicester game back in 06 and Palace in 05 i think. But if anything, the rain will now slow down to the normal begin light drizzle we're renown for down here!

I'm more worried about being blown into the Itchen on my way to the ground..!

No, where exactly would you play Revel...? We're more than covered in that area!

I think it's more for their youth academy to be fair, not sure why the BBC have picked it up as news worthy news for their site though.

It's OK. They've solved their striking problems. West Ham sign 18-year-old Peterborough striker Jaanai Gordon

There's been a bit going on behind the scenes, club see's at as an opportunity for him to play and he wants to play in WC year. Oddly, the club still see him as an asset and a player for the future. But in terms of this season, however good he was on Sunday, he will not be a regular for us this year. Makes sense for both parties I guess. Can't see us actually selling him yet though.

I think he's off on loan.

He wasn't exactly poor. He struggled a little, and was probably pretty average last year, but he wasn't poor. This year he's taken his game up a notch, and I'm convinced that it's down to him having a really solid pre-season and being injury free. I have a feeling he was playing through injury quite a lot over the last couple of seasons.